Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206368
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FREDERIK KORTLANDT -- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE ANDEAN LANGUAGES /Willem Adelaar -- THE ORIGIN OF ALTERNATIONS IN INITIAL PITCH IN THE VERBAL PARADIGMS OF THE CENTRAL JAPANESE (KYÔTO TYPE) ACCENT SYSTEMS /Elisabeth de Boer -- ARMENIANS AND THEIR DIALECTS IN ABKHAZIA /V.A. Chirikba -- ON THE POSITION OF BÁIMĂ WITHIN TIBETAN: A LOOK FROM BASIC VOCABULARY /Katia Chirkova -- LIVING (HAPPILY) WITH CONTRADICTION /Karen Steffen Chung -- THE LANGUAGE ORGANISM: PARASITE OR MUTUALIST? /George van Driem -- MONGOLIAN /-GAR/ AND JAPANESE /-GAR-/ /Roger Finch -- YENISEIC LANGUAGES AND THE SIBERIAN LINGUISTIC AREA /Stefan Georg -- HOW TO ORIENT ONESELF ON SAKHALIN: A GUIDE TO NIVKH LOCATIONAL TERMS /Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ANALYSIS OF PARTICLES IN JAPANESE /C. Hoede -- FACTS AND FANTASY ABOUT FAVORLANG: EARLY EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS WITH TAIWAN'S LANGUAGES /Henning Klöter -- THREE IRREGULAR BERBER VERBS: 'EAT', 'DRINK', 'BE COOKED, RIPEN' /Maarten Kossmann -- TEACHING PERSONAL REFERENCE IN JAPANESE /Riikka Länsisalmi -- DUAL NOMINALISATION IN YUKAGHIR: STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AS SEMANTIC DUALITY /Elena Maslova -- THE ALTAIC AORIST IN *-RA IN OLD KOREAN /Roy Andrew Miller -- AVOIDING ABBA: OLD CHINESE SYLLABIC HARMONY /Marc Hideo Miyake -- VOICE IN TUNEN: THE SO-CALLED PASSIVE PREFIX BÉ /Maarten Mous -- CHUVAN AND OMOK LANGUAGES? /Irina Nikolaeva -- IF JAPANESE IS ALTAIC, HOW CAN IT BE SO SIMPLE? /Martine Robbeets -- BURYAT EVALUATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS /Elena Skribnik -- THREE TASHELHIYT BERBER TEXTS FROM THE ARSÈNE ROUX ARCHIVES /Harry Stroomer -- SYNTAX, RECURSION, PRODUCTIVITY - A USAGE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR /Arie Verhagen -- LANGUAGE, BRAINS AND THE SYNTACTIC REVOLUTION /Jeroen Wiedenhof.
Evidence and Counter-Evidence: Essays in Honour of Frederik Kortlandt, Volume 2
Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206368
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FREDERIK KORTLANDT -- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE ANDEAN LANGUAGES /Willem Adelaar -- THE ORIGIN OF ALTERNATIONS IN INITIAL PITCH IN THE VERBAL PARADIGMS OF THE CENTRAL JAPANESE (KYÔTO TYPE) ACCENT SYSTEMS /Elisabeth de Boer -- ARMENIANS AND THEIR DIALECTS IN ABKHAZIA /V.A. Chirikba -- ON THE POSITION OF BÁIMĂ WITHIN TIBETAN: A LOOK FROM BASIC VOCABULARY /Katia Chirkova -- LIVING (HAPPILY) WITH CONTRADICTION /Karen Steffen Chung -- THE LANGUAGE ORGANISM: PARASITE OR MUTUALIST? /George van Driem -- MONGOLIAN /-GAR/ AND JAPANESE /-GAR-/ /Roger Finch -- YENISEIC LANGUAGES AND THE SIBERIAN LINGUISTIC AREA /Stefan Georg -- HOW TO ORIENT ONESELF ON SAKHALIN: A GUIDE TO NIVKH LOCATIONAL TERMS /Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ANALYSIS OF PARTICLES IN JAPANESE /C. Hoede -- FACTS AND FANTASY ABOUT FAVORLANG: EARLY EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS WITH TAIWAN'S LANGUAGES /Henning Klöter -- THREE IRREGULAR BERBER VERBS: 'EAT', 'DRINK', 'BE COOKED, RIPEN' /Maarten Kossmann -- TEACHING PERSONAL REFERENCE IN JAPANESE /Riikka Länsisalmi -- DUAL NOMINALISATION IN YUKAGHIR: STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AS SEMANTIC DUALITY /Elena Maslova -- THE ALTAIC AORIST IN *-RA IN OLD KOREAN /Roy Andrew Miller -- AVOIDING ABBA: OLD CHINESE SYLLABIC HARMONY /Marc Hideo Miyake -- VOICE IN TUNEN: THE SO-CALLED PASSIVE PREFIX BÉ /Maarten Mous -- CHUVAN AND OMOK LANGUAGES? /Irina Nikolaeva -- IF JAPANESE IS ALTAIC, HOW CAN IT BE SO SIMPLE? /Martine Robbeets -- BURYAT EVALUATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS /Elena Skribnik -- THREE TASHELHIYT BERBER TEXTS FROM THE ARSÈNE ROUX ARCHIVES /Harry Stroomer -- SYNTAX, RECURSION, PRODUCTIVITY - A USAGE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR /Arie Verhagen -- LANGUAGE, BRAINS AND THE SYNTACTIC REVOLUTION /Jeroen Wiedenhof.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401206368
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Preliminary Material -- PREFACE -- LIST OF PUBLICATIONS BY FREDERIK KORTLANDT -- TOWARDS A TYPOLOGICAL PROFILE OF THE ANDEAN LANGUAGES /Willem Adelaar -- THE ORIGIN OF ALTERNATIONS IN INITIAL PITCH IN THE VERBAL PARADIGMS OF THE CENTRAL JAPANESE (KYÔTO TYPE) ACCENT SYSTEMS /Elisabeth de Boer -- ARMENIANS AND THEIR DIALECTS IN ABKHAZIA /V.A. Chirikba -- ON THE POSITION OF BÁIMĂ WITHIN TIBETAN: A LOOK FROM BASIC VOCABULARY /Katia Chirkova -- LIVING (HAPPILY) WITH CONTRADICTION /Karen Steffen Chung -- THE LANGUAGE ORGANISM: PARASITE OR MUTUALIST? /George van Driem -- MONGOLIAN /-GAR/ AND JAPANESE /-GAR-/ /Roger Finch -- YENISEIC LANGUAGES AND THE SIBERIAN LINGUISTIC AREA /Stefan Georg -- HOW TO ORIENT ONESELF ON SAKHALIN: A GUIDE TO NIVKH LOCATIONAL TERMS /Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- KNOWLEDGE GRAPH ANALYSIS OF PARTICLES IN JAPANESE /C. Hoede -- FACTS AND FANTASY ABOUT FAVORLANG: EARLY EUROPEAN ENCOUNTERS WITH TAIWAN'S LANGUAGES /Henning Klöter -- THREE IRREGULAR BERBER VERBS: 'EAT', 'DRINK', 'BE COOKED, RIPEN' /Maarten Kossmann -- TEACHING PERSONAL REFERENCE IN JAPANESE /Riikka Länsisalmi -- DUAL NOMINALISATION IN YUKAGHIR: STRUCTURAL AMBIGUITY AS SEMANTIC DUALITY /Elena Maslova -- THE ALTAIC AORIST IN *-RA IN OLD KOREAN /Roy Andrew Miller -- AVOIDING ABBA: OLD CHINESE SYLLABIC HARMONY /Marc Hideo Miyake -- VOICE IN TUNEN: THE SO-CALLED PASSIVE PREFIX BÉ /Maarten Mous -- CHUVAN AND OMOK LANGUAGES? /Irina Nikolaeva -- IF JAPANESE IS ALTAIC, HOW CAN IT BE SO SIMPLE? /Martine Robbeets -- BURYAT EVALUATIVE CONSTRUCTIONS /Elena Skribnik -- THREE TASHELHIYT BERBER TEXTS FROM THE ARSÈNE ROUX ARCHIVES /Harry Stroomer -- SYNTAX, RECURSION, PRODUCTIVITY - A USAGE-BASED PERSPECTIVE ON THE EVOLUTION OF GRAMMAR /Arie Verhagen -- LANGUAGE, BRAINS AND THE SYNTACTIC REVOLUTION /Jeroen Wiedenhof.
Writings in General Linguistics
Author: Ferdinand de Saussure
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199261444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique g n rale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himself but no evidence of this was found. Eighty years later in 1996 a manuscript in Saussure's hand was discovered in the orangerie of his family house in Geneva. This proved to be the missing original of the great work. It is published now in English for the first time in an edition edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, and translated and introduced by Carol Sanders and Matthew Pires, all leading Saussure scholars. The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004. It is remarkable that for eighty years the understanding of Saussure's thought has depended on an incomplete and non-definitive text, the sometimes aphoristic formulations of which gave rise to many creative interpretations and arguments for and against Saussure. Did he, or did he not, see language as a-social and a-historical? Did he, or did he not, rule out the study of speech within linguistics? Was he a reductionist? These disputes and many others can now be resolved on the basis of the work now published. This reveals new depth and subtetly in Saussure's thoughts on the nature and complex workings of language, particularly his famous binary oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (langue) and its performance (parole).
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780199261444
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 380
Book Description
Ferdinand de Saussure's Cours de linguistique g n rale was posthumously composed by his students from the notes they had made at his lectures. The book became one of the most influential works of the twentieth century, giving direction to modern linguistics and inspiration to literary and cultural theory. Before he died Saussure told friends he was writing up the lectures himself but no evidence of this was found. Eighty years later in 1996 a manuscript in Saussure's hand was discovered in the orangerie of his family house in Geneva. This proved to be the missing original of the great work. It is published now in English for the first time in an edition edited by Simon Bouquet and Rudolf Engler, and translated and introduced by Carol Sanders and Matthew Pires, all leading Saussure scholars. The book includes an earlier discovered manuscript on the philosophy of language, Saussure's own notes for lectures, and a comprehensive bibliography of major work on Saussure from 1970 to 2004. It is remarkable that for eighty years the understanding of Saussure's thought has depended on an incomplete and non-definitive text, the sometimes aphoristic formulations of which gave rise to many creative interpretations and arguments for and against Saussure. Did he, or did he not, see language as a-social and a-historical? Did he, or did he not, rule out the study of speech within linguistics? Was he a reductionist? These disputes and many others can now be resolved on the basis of the work now published. This reveals new depth and subtetly in Saussure's thoughts on the nature and complex workings of language, particularly his famous binary oppositions between form and meaning, the sign and what is signified, and language (langue) and its performance (parole).
Selected Writings on Slavic and General Linguistics
Author: Frederik Kortlandt
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401200602
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The larger part of the present volume is about Slavic historical linguistics while the second part is about more general issues and methodological aspects. The initial chapters contain a revision of the author’s Slavic Accentuation and a discussion of the Slovene evidence for the Late Proto-Slavic accentual system and of the Kiev Leaflets. These are complemented by an extensive review of Garde’s theory and an introductory article about the work of earlier authors for those who are unfamiliar with the subject. Then follows a discussion of changes in the vowel system, Bulgarian developments, final syllables in Slavic, early changes in the consonant system, and of Halle and Kiparsky’s review of Garde’s book. This results in a relative chronology of 70 stages from Proto-Indo-European to Slavic. The following chapters deal with the progressive palatalization, the accentuation of West and South Slavic languages, various aspects of the Old Slovene manuscripts, the chronology of nominal paradigms, and other issues under discussion in recent publications. The second part of the present volume contains a number of case studies exemplifying specific theoretical problems, most of them of a semantic nature. The synchronic studies deal with Russian and Japanese syntax and semantics, the diachronic studies with tonogenesis in different languages and with semantic reconstruction in Altaic and Chinese.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9401200602
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 482
Book Description
The larger part of the present volume is about Slavic historical linguistics while the second part is about more general issues and methodological aspects. The initial chapters contain a revision of the author’s Slavic Accentuation and a discussion of the Slovene evidence for the Late Proto-Slavic accentual system and of the Kiev Leaflets. These are complemented by an extensive review of Garde’s theory and an introductory article about the work of earlier authors for those who are unfamiliar with the subject. Then follows a discussion of changes in the vowel system, Bulgarian developments, final syllables in Slavic, early changes in the consonant system, and of Halle and Kiparsky’s review of Garde’s book. This results in a relative chronology of 70 stages from Proto-Indo-European to Slavic. The following chapters deal with the progressive palatalization, the accentuation of West and South Slavic languages, various aspects of the Old Slovene manuscripts, the chronology of nominal paradigms, and other issues under discussion in recent publications. The second part of the present volume contains a number of case studies exemplifying specific theoretical problems, most of them of a semantic nature. The synchronic studies deal with Russian and Japanese syntax and semantics, the diachronic studies with tonogenesis in different languages and with semantic reconstruction in Altaic and Chinese.
Evidence and Counter-evidence
Author: Alexander Lubotsky
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042024712
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Annotation. ContentsThe Editors: Preface List of Publications by Frederik Kortlandt Willem ADELAAR: Towards a Typological Profile of the Andean Languages Elisabeth DE BOER: The Origin of Alternations in Initial Pitch in ihe Verbal Paradigms of the Central Japanese (Kyôto Type) Accent SystemsV. A. CHIRIKBA: Armenians and their Dialects in AbkhaziaKatia CHIRKOVA: On the Position of Báimã within Tibetan: A Look from Basic VocabularyKaren STEFFEN CHUNG: Living (Happily) with Contradiction George van DRIEM: The Language Organism: Parasite or Mutualist?Roger FINCH: Mongolian /-gar/ and Japanese /-gar-/Stefan GEORG: Yeniseic Languages and the Siberian Linguistic AreaEkaterina GRUZDEVA: How to Orient Oneself on Sakhalin: A Guide to Nivkh Locational TermsC. HOEDE: Knowledge Graph Analysis of Particles in JapaneseHenning KLÖTER: Facts and Fantasy about Favorlang: Early European Encounters with Taiwan¿s LanguagesMaarten KOSSMANN: Three Irregular Berber Verbs: Èat¿, D̀rink¿, B̀e Cooked, Ripen¿Riikka LÄNSISALMI: Teaching Personal Reference in JapaneseElena MASLOVA: Dual Nominalisation in Yukaghir: Structural Ambiguity as Semantic DualityRoy Andrew MILLER: The Altaic Aorist in *-Ra in Old KoreanMarc Hideo MIYAKE: Avoiding Abba: Old Chinese Syllabic HarmonyMaarten MOUS: Voice in Tunen: The So-Called Passive Prefix Bé-Irina NIKOLAEVA: Chuvan and Omok Languages?Martine ROBBEETS: If Japanese is Altaic, How can it be so Simple?Elena SKRIBNIK: Buryat Evaluative ConstructionsHarry STROOMER: Three Tashelhiyt Berber Texts from the Arsène Roux ArchivesArie VERHAGEN: Syntax, Recursion, Productivity ¿ A Usage-Based Perspective on the Evolution of GrammarJeroen WIEDENHOF: Language, Brains and the Syntactic Revolution.
Publisher: Rodopi
ISBN: 9042024712
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 428
Book Description
Annotation. ContentsThe Editors: Preface List of Publications by Frederik Kortlandt Willem ADELAAR: Towards a Typological Profile of the Andean Languages Elisabeth DE BOER: The Origin of Alternations in Initial Pitch in ihe Verbal Paradigms of the Central Japanese (Kyôto Type) Accent SystemsV. A. CHIRIKBA: Armenians and their Dialects in AbkhaziaKatia CHIRKOVA: On the Position of Báimã within Tibetan: A Look from Basic VocabularyKaren STEFFEN CHUNG: Living (Happily) with Contradiction George van DRIEM: The Language Organism: Parasite or Mutualist?Roger FINCH: Mongolian /-gar/ and Japanese /-gar-/Stefan GEORG: Yeniseic Languages and the Siberian Linguistic AreaEkaterina GRUZDEVA: How to Orient Oneself on Sakhalin: A Guide to Nivkh Locational TermsC. HOEDE: Knowledge Graph Analysis of Particles in JapaneseHenning KLÖTER: Facts and Fantasy about Favorlang: Early European Encounters with Taiwan¿s LanguagesMaarten KOSSMANN: Three Irregular Berber Verbs: Èat¿, D̀rink¿, B̀e Cooked, Ripen¿Riikka LÄNSISALMI: Teaching Personal Reference in JapaneseElena MASLOVA: Dual Nominalisation in Yukaghir: Structural Ambiguity as Semantic DualityRoy Andrew MILLER: The Altaic Aorist in *-Ra in Old KoreanMarc Hideo MIYAKE: Avoiding Abba: Old Chinese Syllabic HarmonyMaarten MOUS: Voice in Tunen: The So-Called Passive Prefix Bé-Irina NIKOLAEVA: Chuvan and Omok Languages?Martine ROBBEETS: If Japanese is Altaic, How can it be so Simple?Elena SKRIBNIK: Buryat Evaluative ConstructionsHarry STROOMER: Three Tashelhiyt Berber Texts from the Arsène Roux ArchivesArie VERHAGEN: Syntax, Recursion, Productivity ¿ A Usage-Based Perspective on the Evolution of GrammarJeroen WIEDENHOF: Language, Brains and the Syntactic Revolution.
The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics
Author: Raymond Hickey
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316839451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1687
Book Description
Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316839451
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 1687
Book Description
Providing a contemporary and comprehensive look at the topical area of areal linguistics, this book looks systematically at different regions of the world whilst presenting a focussed and informed overview of the theory behind research into areal linguistics and language contact. The topicality of areal linguistics is thoroughly documented by a wealth of case studies from all major regions of the world and, with chapters from scholars with a broad spectrum of language expertise, it offers insights into the mechanisms of external language change. With no book currently like this on the market, The Cambridge Handbook of Areal Linguistics will be welcomed by students and scholars working on the history of language families, documentation and classification, and will help readers to understand the key area of areal linguistics within a broader linguistic context.
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus
Author: Maria Polinsky
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190690712
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190690712
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 600
Book Description
The Oxford Handbook of Languages of the Caucasus is an introduction to and overview of the linguistically diverse languages of southern Russia, Georgia, Azerbaijan, and Armenia. Though the languages of the Caucasus have often been mischaracterized or exoticized, many of them have cross-linguistically rare features found in few or no other languages. This handbook presents facts and descriptions of the languages written by experts. The first half of the book is an introduction to the languages, with the linguistic profiles enriched by demographic research about their speakers. It features overviews of the main language families as well as detailed grammatical descriptions of several individual languages. The second half of the book delves more deeply into theoretical analyses of features, such as agreement, ellipsis, and discourse properties, which are found in some languages of the Caucasus. Promising areas for future research are highlighted throughout the handbook, which will be of interest to linguists of all subfields.
Impersonal Constructions
Author: Andre? L?vovich Mal?chukov
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027205914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027205914
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 653
Book Description
Features the contributions that deal with various types of impersonality, namely constructions featuring nonagentive subjects, including those with experiential predicates, presentational constructions with a notional subject deficient in topicality, and constructions with a notional subject lacking in referential properties.
The Biology of Language Under a Minimalist Lens: Promises, Achievements, and Limits
Author: Antonio Benítez-Burraco
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889666514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Publisher: Frontiers Media SA
ISBN: 2889666514
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 164
Book Description
Explanation and Linguistic Change
Author: Willem F. Koopman
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235392
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027235392
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 309
Book Description
This volume presents the outcome of a workshop, held in Amsterdam in 1985, on the nature, even possibility, of explanation in Historical Linguistics: why changes take place and others do not, and why they occur at a particular time and place. The workshop, and this volume, aim to explore questions such as i) are the factors which explain the actuation of a change different from those that explain its implementation?; ii) is it possible to give a typology of changes?; iii) should linguistic explanation hope to meet the same requirements as explanation in the pure sciences?; iv) are all linguistic changes necessarily the product of variation?; v) should there be a formal theory of change apart from a general thoery of grammar?
The Indo-European Languages
Author: Mate Kapović
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317391527
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent. Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in-depth discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic features of the Indo-European languages. This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, but also for more experienced researchers looking for an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317391527
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 746
Book Description
The Indo-European Languages presents a comprehensive survey of the individual languages and language subgroups within this language family. With over four hundred languages and dialects and almost three billion native speakers, the Indo-European language family is the largest of the recognized language groups and includes most of the major current languages of Europe, the Iranian plateau and the Indian subcontinent. Written by an international team of experts, this comprehensive, single-volume tome presents in-depth discussions of the historical development and specialized linguistic features of the Indo-European languages. This unique resource remains the ideal reference for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Indo-European linguistics and languages, but also for more experienced researchers looking for an up-to-date survey of separate Indo-European branches. It will be of interest to researchers and anyone with an interest in historical linguistics, linguistic anthropology and language development.